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CNN Genome announcement 'technological triumph'
"Declaring a new era of medical discovery, U.S. President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Monday praised the efforts of an international team of scientists to decode the genetic makeup of humans.

Researchers in London announced earlier in the day that they had completed a rough draft of the human blueprint after 10 years of work.

"This is the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by humankind," Clinton said in Washington. "I congratulate all of you on your achievement."

If the project proves anything, Clinton said, it is that "the most important fact of life on this Earth is our common humanity.""

Wired Human Genome: Because They Could
""How it's going to help me develop drugs or do anything, I really don't have a clue," said Craig Rosen, executive vice president for research and development at Human Genome Sciences."

""It's like being given the best book in the world, but it's in Russian, and it's incredibly boring to read," said Ewan Birney, a team leader at the European Bioinformatics Research Institute, part of the Sanger Centre, one of the major labs working on the Human Genome Project."

The New York Times Scientists Complete Rough Draft of Human Genome
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"The teams' leaders, Dr. J. Craig Venter, president of Celera Genomics, and Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, praised each other's contributions and signaled a spirit of cooperation from now on, even though the two efforts will remain firmly independent."

"The joint announcement is something of a shotgun marriage because neither side's version of the human genome is complete, nor do they exactly agree on the genome's size. Neither side has sequenced -- meaning to determine the order of the chemical subunits -- the DNA of certain short structural regions of the genome, which cannot yet be analyzed."

"The two sides even differ on the size of the gene-coding part of the genome. Celera says it is 3.12 billion letters of DNA, the public consortium that it is 3.15 billion units, a 30 million letter difference. Neither side can yet describe the genome's full size or determine the number of human genes.

"The public consortium has also fallen somewhat behind in its goal of attaining a working draft in which 90 percent of the gene-containing part of the genome was sequenced. Its version today has reached only 85 percent, suggesting it was marching to Celera's timetable."

MSNBC Celera maps human genome, but its profits seen years away
Now that Celera Genomics has stirred wonder by sequencing the human book of life, can the Maryland company decipher how to make a buck? Based upon its share price, many investors are optimistic the genomics company will also solve that eternal riddle � despite the fact some analysts don�t expect Celera to turn a profit for five years or longer."

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